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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya had its most successful Olympics ever in Rio de Janeiro despite chaotic preparations that included missing shoes, ill-fitting uniforms, a brawl among teammates over prize money and completely inadequate training facilities, according to a report reviewed Tuesday by The Associated Press.Among the many revelations in the government-ordered report: members of the womens rugby team had a brawl in an airport on the way home from Rio about how to split prize money, the race walking team wasnt given any track shoes, many of the athletes received uniforms that didnt fit, while some didnt get any and had to provide their own.Medical officials tending to Kenyas top sports stars in case of serious injury had to travel between the spread-out Rio venues on shuttle buses meant for journalists and which only went every 30 minutes -- and sometimes took over an hour to get to an arena.Also, members of the team began their final preparations for the worlds biggest sports event at a High Performance Training Center back home owned by the head of the Olympic committee, and which had a gym only big enough for three people to be in it at any one time, the 90-page report said.But along with the incompetence and mismanagement on a grand scale -- stunning for a country that outperformed the United States and Jamaica at last years athletics world championships -- the report committee raised serious concerns over the possible misappropriation by senior sports officials of millions of dollars in money and athlete apparel provided by team sponsor Nike.Those race walkers may not have got their Nike shoes because officials stole them.The investigation was ordered at the end of August by the sports minister after allegations of corruption being rife at the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK), which was disbanded after Rio amid allegations that some of the $5.7 million Olympic budget was stolen.Since the committee began its investigation, Kenyas Olympic team leader has been charged with stealing $256,000 and three other senior Olympic committee officials -- two vice presidents and the secretary general -- face charges of stealing boxes of Nike apparel that were meant for athletes. One VP was arrested hiding under his bed in an apartment filled with brand new Nike equipment.Because those cases are in court, the report couldnt refer to them. But there was plenty more investigators could reveal.They demanded that NOCK account for how it has used the $714,000 its been given every year by Nike since 2013, and where the $520,000 worth of apparel it received every year has gone. There dont appear to be records.Also, some of Kenyas top athletes, including track and field world champions Asbel Kiprop, Julius Yego and Ezekiel Kemboi, may have been cheated out of tens of thousands of dollars in Nike bonuses due to them for winning medals at major competitions, bonuses they have not received from Kenyan officials, according to the report.Despite the level of ineptitude, and allegedly worse, from those officials, Kenya somehow still won six golds and 13 medals in total in Rio. The track and field team was second on the table behind the U.S.The (investigating) committee would like to express concern over serious management inadequacies, poor planning and financial impropriety that affected what would have been an even greater performance, the report said. The committee would like to thank our sportsmen and women, their coaches and the honest officials for pulling off Kenyas best ever performance at the Olympics despite the glaring management inadequacies that they had to endure.All of Kenyas athletes, even their best, appeared to have been affected.Julius Yego, the javelin world champion who won silver at the Rio Olympics, was one example.Yego was based at the so-called High Performance Training Center with the tiny gym in the buildup to the Olympics. He paid to join a nearby private gym that had better equipment. Yego was put in the high altitude town of Eldoret, where heavy rain at that time of year can wash away roads and he was often unable to travel to the stadium to train. Even when he got to the stadium, Yego had to deal with the fact that the javelin runway was about seven meters shorter than the standard length. When Yego got to the airport to travel to Rio, there was no plane ticket for him.---Some other revelations in the report:- The mens rugby sevens team went on a three-week high-altitude training camp, but returned to the capital Nairobi for a week and then traveled to Rio, which is at sea level, two weeks before their competition, nullifying any benefit from the high-altitude training.-Marathon runner Wesley Korir left a pre-Olympics training camp without permission to travel to Canada and run in a marathon as a pace-setter for his wife. The exertion led to him dropping out halfway through the Olympic marathon.-Following the womens rugby teams brawl, team officials lied and said the players were fighting over a man. Players later admitted it was over prize money promised them by the Kenyan government.-The sports ministry paid nearly $900,000 more than it should have for 330 plane tickets to Rio, mostly for officials, after a company was hired just to do the bookings.---Imray reported from Somerset West, South Africa. John Hannah Jersey . It was hard for Luck to pull off another comeback, or even get into the end zone, while standing on the sideline. Rivers threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to rookie Keenan Allen and Nick Novak kicked four field goals to give the Chargers a 19-9 victory against the Colts on Monday night. Julian Edelman Youth Jersey . 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Toulons climb up the Top 14 table was arrested by Castres Olympique on Saturday afternoon, as the home team prevailed 34-19 at the Stade Jean-Pierre Antoine.Two early Pierre Bernard penalties saw the visitors into a 6-0 lead, but a 17th minute try to Robert Ebersohn was then converted by Geoffrey Palis - who would put together a 19-point haul on the day - and it was the hosts who led 13-9 at half-time.Ebersohn crossed for his second try of the game just after the break, and it was Palis himself taking the score out to 25-12 in the 55th minute after converting his own try.Jean Charles Orioli struck in the 59th minute for the visitors sole five-pointer, but in the end it fell to substitute Tudor Stroe to seal a big win for Castres with his try shortly before the final whistle.Ill discipline cost?Montpellier in Sundays Top 14 clash as?Stade Francais fly-half Jules Plisson kicked seven penalties in a 21-17 win at?Stade Jean Bouin in Paris.Montpellier trailed 9-3 at the break, but got themselves back into the contest through two tries in the space of five minutes from Australian international Joe Tomane and Fijian winger Timoci Nagusa.Montpelliers hard work was undone though as they continued to concede penalties and Plisson made them pay.?Its Stade Francais fifth win of the season, moving them up to tenth ahead of Lyon.A solitary second-half penalty from Manu Saubusse was the difference as Bayonne beat Toulouse 16-13 on Sunday.A Gillian Galan try inside six minutes saw Toulouse lead, but the game was level 13-13 at the break. In a less than uneventful second-half Florian Fritz was sin-binned to give Saubusse the opportunity to give Bayonne the winning penalty six minutes after the restart.A Morgan Parra penalty in injury times gave Clermont a 16-13 victory over Lyon at the Stade Marcel-Michelin.Jacques-Louis Potgieter kicked Lyon ahead 11 minutes in, but two kicks from Parra saw Clermont lead 6-3 at the break. Arthur Iturria jotted down after the bbreak, a try which Parra converted.dddddddddddd But a Potgieter penalty and his conversion to Baptiste Couillouds try 15 minutes from time looked to have sealed a draw for Lyon.But there was late drama as Mickael Ivaldi was sin-binned in injury-time and Parra converted the penalty for the win.Racing 92 defeated Grenoble 29-24 in a try-fest in Paris. Yannick Nyanga crossed for Racing inside six minutes but was cancelled out four minutes later as Fabien Alexandre touched down.Dimitri Szarzewski put Racing back in front on the half hour, as James Hart converted, who led 14-10 at half-time as a Jonathan Wisniewski penalty narrowed the margin.Grenoble, who have managed just two wins this season led when Laurent Bouchets try was converted four minutes after the restart.The lead lasted 10 minutes before Francois van der Merwe crashed over and Henry Chavancy sealed the result with a fourth Racing try 15 minutes from time.Simon Hickey kicked 14 points as Bordeaux Begles leapfrogged La Rochelle into second in the table after a 26-0 victory.But it was closer than the result suggests as Hickey kept the scoreboard ticking over at every opportunity for a 6-0 half-time lead. He added two penalties and conversion to Sebastien Taofifenuas try on the hour to stretch their lead.Front row replacement Jean-Baptiste Poux touched down two minutes from time for a convincing win.Brive climbed to ninth as they brushed the challenge of Pau aside, 38-25. A converted Benjamin Lapeyre try and penalty from Gaetan Germain saw Brive lead 10-3 before Charly Malie pulled a try back for Pau who trailed 13-8 at the break.Both sides saw two players sin-binned in the second-half as tries from Seremaia Burotu, Nicolas Bezy and Takudzwa Ngwenya saw them to victory. Pau added consolation tries through Chris King and Marvin Lestremau in the final 10 minutes. ' ' '